Incontri : corrispondenza, 1939-1969 /
In August 1939 when, with a telegram from Roberto Longhi, this thirty-year correspondence began, Giuliano "Briganti was 21 years old, a student at the University of Rome and graduated with a thesis on Pellegrino Tibaldi only the following year. He is the son of a close friend of Longhi's,...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Milano :
Archinto,
[2021]
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| Summary: | In August 1939 when, with a telegram from Roberto Longhi, this thirty-year correspondence began, Giuliano "Briganti was 21 years old, a student at the University of Rome and graduated with a thesis on Pellegrino Tibaldi only the following year. He is the son of a close friend of Longhi's, Aldo Briganti, an art historian. Aldo Briganti and Roberto Longhi, in 1915-1916, in their early twenties, had created a company, to earn some money together, using their skill and their eye of connoisseurs, buying and selling old paintings. Giuliano, since birth, knows Longhi who, therefore, has always been part of his life. It is he, alongside Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, who guides the young man in the path of his studies. When the correspondence begins, Longhi is 49 years old and is already a well-known university professor. On April 2, 1969, at the end of the correspondence, Longhi was almost eighty and died some time later (June 3, 1970). That day he writes a very affectionate letter to the son of his youth partner. Giuliano, the so-called 'pupil', addressee of the letter, is just over fifty years old and is an established scholar by now. The possibility of having the letters of both correspondents allows us to achieve unity, albeit with numerous gaps. It is now up to us, students of Briganti, to pass on the memory. Giuliano has always maintained, and he also wrote that 'pupils and not only books, as a great German writer of this century said, are made to unite men beyond death and defend ourselves against the most implacable enemy of all life: forgetfulness'."--Publisher Archinto Editore. |
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| Item Description: | Correspondence between art historians Giuliano Briganti (1918-1992) and Roberto Longhi (1890-1970), published for the first time. |
| Physical Description: | 200 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788877687500 8877687509 |